B3068 crash in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole on 4 September 2001 at 09:10 involving a Bristol (BLMC) bus
A Bristol (BLMC) bus crashed on the B3068 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 09:10 on Tuesday 4 September 2001. A 78-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Sep 2001
- Tuesday, 09:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bristol (BLMC)
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72369, longitude -2.01428, in the BH15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Poole. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hamworthy, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, BH16 5AA area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Poole district.
Map of where the crash happened in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001550P04575
- Council area
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Police force
- Dorset
- Highway authority
- Poole
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3068
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 February 2002.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B3068 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 8 February 2002
At the same spotRef 2002550P00762
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3068 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 12 July 1999
At the same spotRef 1999550P03157
Serious
Skoda Fabia crash on the B3068 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 14 February 2019
2 m awayRef 2019551900198
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B3068 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 11 October 2023
4 m awayRef 2023552301217
Slight
Lexus IS 250 crash on the B3068 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 28 April 2025
4 m awayRef 2025552500461
Serious
Volkswagen Touran crash on the B3068 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 23 April 2020
5 m awayRef 2020552000486
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bristol (BLMC)
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 11,450 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 78, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bristol (BLMC))
- Bus or coach passenger
- Alighting
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2001550P04575 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole road accident statistics for 2001.